Greetings WOW members and Web professionals everywhere. Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute.
I?’m in Las Vegas participating in the Web Builder 2.0 conference taking place at the Mirage Hotel and Conference center. I?’ve sat in on a number of great sessions covering the world of Web Design and Development.
For today?’s podcast, I had the pleasure to interview Steve Smith, Principal OrderredList.com a design and development business with headquarters in Central Indiana, USA.
Steve presented on a variety of topics including, “How to Use and Extend jQuery”. jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. It was released January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig under a dual license under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License. jQuery is free and open source software.
Steve is an outstanding presenter, Web professional and educator. In this interview Steve sums up the benefits of and the how to’s regarding jQuery for Web professionals.
Check out today?’s four minute podcast on WOW Technology Minute website.
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Transcript of Steve Smith
BILL CULLIFER: Greetings WOW members and Web professionals everywhere. Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute at Web Builder 2.0 at Las Vegas.
I have the pleasure to be interviewing Steve Smith, Principal at OrderredList.com. He‘s an adjunct professor, notable speaker and today he‘s presenting on a variety of topics including, “How to Use and Extend jQuery.” Steve, good morning and thanks for agreeing to this interview.
STEVE SMITH: No problem, thank you.
BILL: Steve, I loved the session on jQuery. Could you tell the viewers, the subscribers of this pod cast, what is jQuery all about and how can they benefit?
STEVE: jQuery is really just a very simple, easy way to add behavior to your website. It follows very basic, similar conventions to existing technologies. It?’s very similar to CSS where you simply select elements and then you process them and you add behavior to them. It provides very short, easy ways to do that. It makes it really nice to be able to add basic, or even more advanced, behavior to your web pages.
BILL: Excellent. Well said. You had a couple of specific benefit statements that you presented today. Can you hone in on those? How are Web professionals going to benefit?
STEVE: Yeah. JavaScript is wonderful for adding additional benefits to your visitors, enhancing the experience for those visitors, making things a little bit better, presenting information that may not necessarily be there to begin with but it provides them interaction. It makes just a nice, more rich feel for the person who?’s visiting your webpage.
BILL: Excellent. Today you had a couple of decks or slides, it was in your deck on some walk-a-ways. What were the specific resources that folks can go check out and try to get their head and hands around this?
STEVE: Absolutely. The first thing is just how simple and powerful jQuery selectors are. jQuery selectors follow the same syntax as CSS, so if you?’re familiar with that you can select objects using jQuery very easily. Then once you have a set of objects you simply add behavior to them. Very simple, you either add a function on to it or you can iterate through those objects and do whatever you need to them.
BILL: Excellent. Thank you Steve.
STEVE: Thank you.